Teachers to strike next month in long-running pay dispute

Teachers in England and Wales will go on strike next month, the National Union of Teachers announced today.

They will walk out of classrooms on March 26 in a long-running dispute over pay, pensions and conditions.

The union blamed the Education Secretary for causing disputes with the profession. General secretary Christine Blower said: “Michael Gove’s persistent refusals to address our ongoing dispute over pay, pensions and conditions of service, is unnecessary and deeply damaging.

As a result, thousands of good, experienced teachers are leaving or considering leaving the job and a teacher shortage crisis is looming.”

A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: “Parents will struggle to understand why the NUT is pressing ahead with strikes over the Government’s measures to let heads pay good teachers more.”